Love and Monsters (2020)

It's divisive. Only 67% of audiences liked it based on 4,369 votes. Critics gave it 78%.

Seven years since the Monsterpocalypse began, Joel Dawson has been living underground in order to survive. But after reconnecting over radio with his high school girlfriend Aimee, Joel decides to venture out to reunite with her, despite all the dangerous monsters that stand in his way. Wikipedia ↗

Love and Monsters is a 2020 American monster adventure comedy directed by Michael Matthews. Dylan O'Brien stars as Joel Dawson, a young man living in an underground colony seven years after an asteroid's destruction caused chemical fallout that mutated insects and cold-blooded creatures into enormous, lethal monsters that drove humanity underground. When Joel discovers his pre-apocalypse girlfriend Aimee, played by Jessica Henley, is alive in a coastal colony 85 miles away, he makes the suicidal decision to travel across the monster-infested surface to find her.

The creature designs were inventive and varied — giant frogs, mutant millipedes, and an enormous crab provided distinct visual threats — and Joel's journey from cowardly bunker-dweller to resourceful survivor was a satisfying character arc. Michael Rooker appeared as a grizzled surface-dwelling survivalist who teaches Joel monster-fighting techniques. Love and Monsters received an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects and earned $33 million worldwide.